Description
A true crime classic, Gary M. Lavergne’s book gives the most complete analysis of the man who climbed the tower at the University of Texas in 1966 and shot 45 people, but even so killing his wife and mother the night before. Also revealed is the shocking information about Whitman’s circle of relatives life; he used to be not the all-American young man gone insane as he used to be depicted in the media. As an alternative, the dark secrets of his relationship with his father and his father’s own violence is woven into this account of calculated evil. This book has been hailed by experts as a very good depiction of a case that defined mass murder, the largest mass murder in U.S. history at that time.